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#1 Steve Bucknor
Despite retiring nearly a decade ago, Bucknor still holds the record of 128 Test matches stood in. The Jamaican umpired Tests for 20 years between 1989 and 2009 and also officiated five World Cup finals.
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He was a qualified football referee and was in charge for a World Cup qualifier between El Salvador and the Netherlands Antilles in 1988. Before this, in 1964 he played as a goalkeeper for his country in a schoolboy international versus Brazil.
In 2008, he was removed by the ICC from officiating a Test between Australia and India following several poor decisions in the match prior, in Sydney. Bucknor blamed the Indian cricket board's financial power for his dismissal.
The ICC confirmed in February 2009 that Bucknor had decided to retire from umpiring in March 2009. His final Test was between South Africa and Australia at Cape Town.
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